TUESDAY WEATHER: Our stretch of exceptionally nice weather will continue for another day, with sunny skies and a high of 86 degrees today. It’ll be slightly warmer than yesterday, but still not bad, with relatively low humidity levels. Tonight, we’ll drop to about 61 degrees as humidity levels continue to rise ahead of an approaching cold front.
Tomorrow will see more dry weather, before rain chances return to the forecast tomorrow night and Thursday. There’s only about a 30% to 40% chance of scattered thunderstorms from Wednesday night into Thursday night.
THE WEEKEND: The upcoming weekend will be warm and dry. We’ll top out in the upper 80s each day from Friday through Sunday.
NEXT WEEK: Even warmer weather is in store for next week. We’ll push to near 90 degrees by Monday. It’ll be a pretty typical late-summer forecast for the first few days of September, with slightly above-normal temperatures and near-normal rainfall.
RIVER CONDITIONS: Streamflows are about normal for this time of year. The Big South Fork River is near 250 cubic feet per second (cfs) and falling. Clear Fork is near 40 cfs and falling. Water clarity is improving. Water temperatures are gradually falling but are still topping out around 82 degrees during the peak of afternoon heating.
TROPICAL WATCH: Two disturbances in the Atlantic could become tropical storms in the days ahead. The first is located a couple hundred miles east of Bermuda and is not a threat to the U.S. The second has just peeled off the coast of Africa. It could eventually take aim at the U.S. east coast, but conditions are expected to become less favorable for development by the weekend. All in all, a very quiet Atlantic hurricane season is expected to continue.
WINTER OUTLOOK: A strengthening El Nino will likely become the strongest on record and will impact our weather this winter. Though the exact impacts are impossible to pinpoint months in advance, above-average rainfall seems likely for much of the Southeast, and strong El Ninos typically mean less intrusions of cold, arctic air this far south. NOAA’s seasonal outlook for December-February calls for above-average temperatures and above-average rainfall in East Tennessee. Despite these historic norms, some of our region’s biggest snowstorms have occurred during strong El Nino patterns.
TODAY: The Scott County Senior Citizens Center (Main Street, Oneida) will offer exercise from 10 a.m. to 11 a.m. today. Boy Scout Troop 333 will meet at the War Memorial Building in Oneida at 6 p.m. TCAT Oneida/Huntsville’s 2026 graduation will begin at 6 p.m. at Oneida High School’s Performing Arts Center. Trinity Baptist Church (1611 Glass House Road, Helenwood) will host its weekly meeting of the Wall Builders program from 7 p.m. to 9 p.m. for those striving to beat drug addiction. Alcoholics Anonymous will meet at 7 p.m. at the Highway 27 Unity Club in Oneida. In high school sports, Scott High soccer will be at Campbell County at 6 p.m., and Oneida soccer will host Anderson County at 7 p.m.
